Roland Jones is the Founder of Axebridge Corporate Services Limited and has more than 25 years of experience in the areas of Banking, Trusts, Accounting, Wealth Management and International Financial Services. As CEO and Managing Director for the Group, Roland is responsible for the strategic leadership and management of the Group. Roland sits on the board of the Axebridge Group of Companies and STEP Caribbean Conference Limited.

He is a chartered accountant, banker and a professional trust professional. Roland is a member of the Certified General Accountants of Canada (CGA), the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados (ICAB), the Institute of Canadian Bankers (ICB), the Canadian Tax Foundation. Roland is the Regional Chair of STEP Caribbean and Latin America and was a recent recipient of the STEP Founder’s Award for Outstanding Achievement. Roland has published several articles on trusts and corporate issues for the STEP journal.

Firm Overview:

The Axebridge philosophy is to become a global partner for our clients through various initiatives including structuring and wealth management corporate and private client solutions based on respect, risk management and a thorough understanding of each client’s business and planning model.

We understand that our international clients are driven by the need to continuously grow and understand, creating and sustaining wealth for their families and shareholders and are willing to examine alternative, sometimes out-of the-box solutions to achieve cost efficient and reliable efforts in this regard. We also understand that a partner means not only sharing the successes but helping to resolve some of the failures where is most needed.

Chinedu Ozor graduated from the University of Abuja (LL.B Hons, 2004), and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2005. He oversees the local establishment of foreign companies and corporate compliance with regulatory and statutory requirements. He provides immigration advisory and support to DCSL’s clients. Chinedu has been a member of the team of various corporate governance engagements including board evaluation, and remuneration bench-marking as well as due diligence engagements. He is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association and the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, UK.

Mr. Fabio GASPERONI has 12+ years of experience assisting clients – from solopreneurs, digital nomads and startup founders to multinational groups and investment firms as well as international families – creating and maintaining affordable and efficient corporate structures.

After studying Business Administration and Law at Milan’s Bocconi University and Business Administration at Wits Business School in Johannesburg, he worked as international tax advisor at Ernst & Young in Luxembourg and subsequently at a major Corporate Service Provider in Luxembourg where he created and headed the Corporate and Wealth Structuring Department.

He has been a Trusts & Estates Practitioner since 2010 and served as partner at Maprima Luxembourg since 2013.

Corporate Services:

Maprima can provide a business address and one or more directors, but we can also support your company with all kinds of legal, tax and administrative matters, such as:

organizing shareholders’ meetings, including preparation of the minutes hereof

preparing shareholders’ and board resolutions

preparing powers of attorney in combination with the review of the transaction

opening bank accounts and handling domestic and international payments

complying with the reporting obligations towards tax and other authorities

preparing loan and other agreements

liaising with external advisors, auditors, lawyers and notaries

In addition to these corporate services, Maprima can also handle the bookkeeping and administration for your company, prepare interim financial reports, the annual accounts and the annual publication report, and prepare the annual corporate income tax return and periodic VAT returns. We appreciate however that you may already have your own consultants who handle these matters for you. In that case, we will of course gladly cooperate with your advisors and assist them where necessary.

Maprima:

Maprima is an independent boutique advisory firm with offices in The Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium.

Fully licensed by the Dutch Central Bank and the Luxembourg OEC, Maprima has been advising and servicing international clients and wealthy individuals & families since 1999.

Maprima’s client portfolio consists of listed companies, private (family) businesses and investment funds (hedge funds, pension funds). With some clients Maprima has developed decade-long relationships, whereas others only required support during their start-up stage or for specific projects.

In the offices in Maastricht, Luxembourg and Antwerp a team of more than 20 legal and financial professionals works together closely with the clients and their families.

Through the various service lines Maprima has been assisting and coordinating clients in both a corporate as well as in a private setting. The common denominator is always to unburden clients. Maprima is set up and managed by professionals who are actively engaged in everyday client-service. The absence of overhead allows Maprima to offer its services at competitive fees.

Mr. Theo Coulen has been a Partner at Maprima since 2005 and has more than 20 years experience as a tax advisor. He served as Member of various Management Boards of internationally operating companies. Mr. Coulen started his career at Arthur Andersen and served at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and ZR Belastingadviseurs. At Andersen and Deloitte, Mr. Coulen specialized in international and national corporate income tax. He applied this knowledge to internationally related tax issues for wealthy individuals at ZR Belastingadviseurs.

Mr. Coulen practiced all aspects of tax law and was responsible for clients listed at stock exchanges as well as wealthy individuals. He holds a University degree in Tax Law from the University of Maastricht with a specialization in European and International Tax Law.

Corporate Services:

Maprima can provide a business address and one or more directors, but can also support a company with all kinds of legal, tax and administrative matters, such as:

organizing shareholders’ meetings, including preparation of the minutes hereof

preparing shareholders’ and board resolutions

preparing powers of attorney in combination with the review of the transaction

opening bank accounts and handling domestic and international payments

complying with the reporting obligations towards tax and other authorities

preparing loan and other agreements

liaising with external advisors, auditors, lawyers and notaries

In addition to these corporate services, Maprima can also handle the bookkeeping and administration for a company, prepare interim financial reports, the annual accounts and the annual publication report, and prepare the annual corporate income tax return and periodic VAT returns.

Maprima appreciates however that clients may already have their own consultants who handle these matters for them. In that case, Maprima will of course gladly cooperate with the client’s advisors and assist them where necessary.

Maprima:

Maprima is an independent boutique firm with offices in The Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium.

Fully licensed by the Dutch Central Bank and the Luxembourg OEC, Maprima has been advising and servicing international clients and wealthy individuals & families since 1999.

Maprima’s client portfolio consists of listed companies, private (family) businesses and investment funds (hedge funds, pension funds). With some clients Maprima has developed decade-long relationships, whereas others only required support during their start-up stage or for specific projects.

In the offices in Maastricht, Luxembourg and Antwerp a team of more than 20 legal and financial professionals works together closely with the clients and their families.

Through the various service lines Maprima has been assisting and coordinating clients in both a corporate as well as in a private setting. The common denominator is always to unburden clients. Maprima is set up and managed by professionals who are actively engaged in everyday client-service. The absence of overhead allows Maprima to offer its services at competitive fees.

Vassilev & Partners Law Firm is a dynamic and business-oriented law practice that provides high quality legal services to local and foreign corporate clients. We support entities already established in the Bulgarian market, as well as foreign investors who strive to start and develop their activities locally in an unimpeded manner.

Our main focus is the provision of legal services to international projects in the area of corporate and financial law, real estate and litigation. We provide a full range of legal analyses and due diligence investigations, legal advisory, legal subscription services, participation in negotiations, legal representation before judicial and extrajudicial institutions, state officials and third parties.

In addition to the legal services we offer you wide range of tax and accounting services to provide efficient solutions for the overall management of your business.

We have a network of local and foreign partners with whom we share expertise in order to ensure the legal completion of complex international projects. Our goal is to provide you with the right decisions in any situation especially where interaction with legal, financial and tax advisors from different jurisdictions is needed.

We offer you comprehensive legal services based on expertise, responsible and personally engaged approach. We take to heart your business interests and get to the core of the matter. Our goal is to fully satisfy your requirements and expectations.

We provide our services in Bulgarian, English, German, French and Russian.

Crina Vasile is Partner and one of the two founders of Lexington Corporate Services.

Crina specializes in company incorporation, corporate compliance and governance services. She is currently assisting Romanian and foreign private clients, corporations and institutional investors and serves as a member of the Board of Directors and Supervisory Board in various companies. Crina is part of the steering committee for the IR Tax group.

Crina is an Affiliate of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, she has legal and corporate secretarial studies and expertise and is currently specializing in international taxation. She has a Master’s degree in Specialized Terminology in French and English, also qualifying as a sworn translator.

Practice:

Lexington Corporate Services is a leading professional service firm providing a comprehensive range of corporate services, which has expanded steadily in recent years and established a valued reputation of a trusted service provider for a large and complex international clientele.

We can assist with a full range of services from incorporating new holding or trading companies, with complete management and administration, to serving as discussion partner in strategic issues concerning market access or general business development in Romania or internationally.

Our team has a unique understanding of the markets and of clients’ needs providing full range of corporate support services for simple to sophisticated offshore and onshore structures, our extensive capabilities enable us to step-up service quality and flexibility, and to increase customer satisfaction at an agreed cost.

We are awarded the ISO 9001 being certified by Lloyd’s Register. As a licensed service provider, we apply strict standards of service quality and personnel competence.

We provide combined and consolidated enterprise wide needed support services, based on specialized knowledge and best practices:

We have a variety of clients across many industries, however we are specialized in:

– High net worth individuals
– Oil & Gas
– ITC
– Retail

Lexington Corporate Services is part of a larger group of companies which is a leading firm in tax, legal, accounting, immigration, payroll, personnel leasing and translation services. Therefore, we closely collaborate with highly experienced accountants, lawyers and tax advisors and wealth managers with a broad knowledge of asset protection structures, trust and fiduciary services and international tax planning.

The diversity of expertise we offer across our group is a feature that sets us apart.

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